SPACE - Supporting Parents and Children Emotionally

What Is SPACE?

by Ness Little HSK Parent support coordinator

Before COVID 19 we had developed and were piloting a new group programme: SPACE - Supporting Parents and Children Emotionally. A result of an exciting collaboration between Headstart Kernow and Rockpool.

SPACE was created to help parents understand what is meant by a Trauma Informed approach and to familiarise them with the Trauma Informed language being used in schools and across organisations who are working with and supporting their children.

A programme intended for all parents SPACE aims to provide information to parents, raising awareness of trauma and how that can affect both children’s and adult’s emotional behaviour.

Adapting SPACE for the lockdown

We understand that lots of parents will be feeling worried right now, feelings that are completely normal.

To help support you during COVID-19, we have created a series of factsheets based on the SPACE sessions, designed to offer some support and strategies, whatever your situation, and are based on what we know about people’s responses to traumatic events and what can help.

Each factsheet explores how parents can better emotionally support themselves, their children, and suggests simple, tangible tools that can be used at home to benefit the whole family

Supporting Resources

All Factsheets include links to websites, blogs and video’s to help embed the messages and provide additional mediums for digesting the information.

Additionally, we have included PDF’s of postcards that along with the fact sheets can printed off to keep and refer back too. See SPACE attachments

Live Q and A sessions for parents

To further support families and complement release of the factsheets we will be running weekly Q&A Webinars for parents.

Sessions will run every Monday from 2.30pm - 3.30pm.

Links to the first 5 sessions are highlighted below

To sign up and join any of our online webinars follow the links below. Each session provides Parents with an opportunity to ask questions and talk through some of the positives as well as the challenges of parenting during lockdown.

20^th April; https://rockpoollife.arlo.co/register?sgid=739f7f27f04344c2a70f6b51bf22f1f9

27^th April; https://rockpoollife.arlo.co/register?sgid=7b157cddac8444ab96103a9543d0eb5c

4^th May; https://rockpoollife.arlo.co/register?sgid=f5961adcebe14300a97a75ec96758b3e

11^th May; https://rockpoollife.arlo.co/register?sgid=738e1773686f42158a7ff6d36f27a7cd

18^th May; https://rockpoollife.arlo.co/register?sgid=c50b4dc2f73f4128843e400b886e95b4

For more information about SPACE contact Ness.Little@cornwall.gov.uk Mobile: 07483 351382